Posts Tagged ‘dance’

Its amazing how Nritarutya landed up and elevated the song we have been playing for so long to a whole new level!

The plan was always on to have Nritarutya choreograph some dance sequences for some of our songs, it was only logical that we did that! They are undoubtedly the best contemporary dance company in India, well, atleast we definitely think so! and there are unbelievably exciting to watch on stage!

Thanks to our amazing friends at Kyra, we had the best rehearsal space in the city available to us! and we even had an audience to boot! Everything was set up for us on stage when we arrived for practice and after some warm up jams, it was time to see how things would go with Nritarutya.

The dancers arrived just after and with a quick warm up, were all set to rock and roll. We started going through the song part by part and watched in amazement as they went through their routine. It was brilliant to see that we had both worked out our parts to perfection and so with some small fixes, we were all set and feeling confident!

I can guarantee you that they will blow your minds tomorrow and you can confidently expect a visual treat! Infact, It was unbelievable how, for the first 3 run throughs, we could not concentrate on the song! we just kept looking at the choreography!

A huge round of applause and our heart felt thanks to team Nritarutya for putting in crazy hours to work out something fantastic for our show - you guys just took the song to a whole new level!

Very recently I came across this video of a dance for ‘Mysore Se Aayi’ that was performed at the ‘Anandabalaga‘ by Aditya Kavoor which was directed by Rohan Raj from Nritarutya!

It is a really sweet effort and I think all of you should see it! And send Aditya a comment if you like it :)

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Bangalore, long time back used to be this place where everyone was laidback and happy and things moved along leisurely, infact, there was a time, the old-timers say when everyone in Bangalore knew everyone else in Bangalore. But with time, Bangalore grew to become a cosmopolitan, modern city. The influx of IT brought with it people, ideas, cultures and so much so that the once ‘retirement town’ had now become a ‘melting pot’ of cultures and traditions and people!

Over the last few years, a lot of things changed and clearly our city has struggled to cope with that and in many ways it has begun to catch up.

Last month however, the law makers and the law enforcers in a stunning twist of events banned live music in the city (yet again!). Well technically, ALL live music is not banned, but performances of any kind, music, dance, theatre etc in a place which serves alcohol is banned. Which essentially means, there are *NO* venues to perform in the city.

For all you naysayers and people who believe that there are venues and we should just organize shows in the myriad halls that exist and any variation of that idea, all I have to say is .. please organize something like this .. one gig a month with whichever band you want to or any dancer or theatre performer and then see how it works out for you. Then you will realize why these venues were of such importance to the young artistes in the city.

Raghu Dixit at the protest

Raghu and I being the only Bangaloreans in the band, came out in full force last week (or atleast as much force as we could) to be part of the protest against such illogical ruling by the police. We certainly hope that this situation is resolved quickly before we end up living in a place that is permanently devoid of culture!

If you would like to see this situation changed, please go right ahead and sign the petition to the government online at http://bengalurubleeding.com/petition and leave your message there. This will be taken officially to the government and we hope that something good will come out of it!

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